ATHENS — An international team of researchers from the University of Georgia and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany have discovered a promising strategy to decode the metabolic pathways for plant compounds important in medical treatments, according to a new study published in Nature Chemical Biology.
Led by Chenxin Li of UGA’s Center for Applied Genetic Technologies in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the research team studied the biosynthesis of two alkaloids from the Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) that are used as anti-cancer agents in human medicine. The genes for the formation of these active substances are expressed in different cell types.
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